Mob rule

Mob rule is sometimes called mobocracy or ochlocracy.

There is sometimes no legal government and mobs of people decide whatever they want. It is government by a mob. Under such system, the mob becomes the ruler or dominant force in society. Actually, it is rare for a whole country to be under mob rule.

Often, the mobs overthrow their leaders and be for a time without a government. Parts of a country may try to secede (break off) from the country. That has been quite common in certain parts of the world. Mobs do have leaders, who make speeches complaining about what is wrong, and what they want instead of the legal government.

Mobs sometimes succeed in taking over the whole country (Russian revolution), sometimes they fail because the government succeeds in using force to stop them. The British decision to ban the Atlantic slave trade (William Wilberforce) was fiercely resisted by the people who made money out of the trade. Slave trade mobs attacked the homes of people known to support abolition.

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• Nazi Germany
• Kingdom of Italy

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